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Thursday, 20 August 2015

Asking For ItAuthor: Louise O'NeillPublication Date: September 3rd 2015 Publisher: Quercus Children's~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~

FROM THE WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

It's
the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan
is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a
party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma.

The next
morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember
what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why
she's in pain. But everyone else does.

Photographs taken at the
party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But
sometimes people don't want to believe what is right in front of them,
especially when the truth concerns the town's heroes...

Last year, Louise O’Neill’s debut, Only Ever Yours was a
much needed book in YA, and I loved Only Ever Yours, it was honest, and It was
easily one of my favourite releases from last year, and just easily one of my
favourites. Now, Louise O’Neill has written another much needed story that
everyone should read. Upon finishing reading Asking For It, I wanted to cry,
and hug Louise O’Neill for writing that much needed book and hit a wall. And
eat my feelings in gelato, and I honestly don’t know how I’m going to give it
justice while talking about it at all, because there are just no words.